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Beef-Tea

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Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. Tea
  2. Water
  3. Chop
  4. Sherry wine
  5. 3 pounds of lean beef
  6. Salt

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Take 3 pounds of lean beef;
  2. chop as fine as coarse hominy, and put in a vessel, covering the meat with cold water.
  3. Cover the vessel tightly, and let boil for four hours, carefully keeping the beef just covered with the water.
  4. Pass through a colander, pressing out all the juice with a potato-masher, strain through a cotton cloth, and add a little salt.
  5. A glass of sherry wine decidedly improves beef-tea.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Sieve
  • Colander
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book Being a Practical Treatise on the Culinary Art Adapted to the Tastes and Wants of All Classes, by H. J. Clayton (1883). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #38823 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38823). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.